A group of educators and business people is working to bring a four-year university to the Temecula Valley.
The Southwest Riverside County Higher Education Coalition wants to convert part of a building on Mt. San Jacinto College’s Temecula Valley campus into the only four-year college or university in the region.
The group began pursuing that goal after it was unable to persuade state officials to allow Mt. San Jacinto College, a community college with approximately 30,000 students, to grant a four-year degree, said Dr. Lisa Deforest, the coalition’s chair…